Hubris - definition: Microsoft's PassportWritten by Stephen Bucaro
---------------------------------------------------------- Permission is granted for below article to forward, reprint, distribute, use for ezine, newsletter, website, offer as free bonus or part of a product for sale as long as no changes are made and byline, copyright, and resource box below is included. ----------------------------------------------------------Hubris - definition: Microsoft's Passport By Stephen Bucaro Before September of 1995, Microsoft ignored Internet because their 16-bit Windows 3.1 operating system couldn't handle 32-bit Internet world. With introduction of Windows 95, Microsoft decided they owned Internet. Instead of having separate accounts at dozens of websites, Microsoft decided that you will have one master account that you will use to log in everywhere. That account will contain your credit card number, bank account numbers, all your personal information and financial records, and Microsoft will own that account. Well, Microsoft IS United State's government condoned monopoly, so 200 million Internet users, and 100 major web companies dutifully signed up for Microsoft's Passport wallet service. In 1999, Internet authorities discovered Microsoft's passport service had numerous security holes, and hackers could steal your personal information. In 2001, Federal Trade Commission admonished Microsoft for not adhering to their own privacy policy. In 2003, Microsoft purged all financial records from its Passport servers. Millions of users continue to sign up for Passport because of convenience it offers. Nearly 100 websites use Passport as their authentication method. Users don't need to remember separate usernames and passwords for each website. They can log in to all of them using a single email address. Some of websites let you register without a Passport accont, but others, especially Microsoft owned websites, require you to have a Passport account.
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I started selling different products as a mail order business in 1996, however, a month later, after buying a computer and discovering Internet I decided to open an online store. Very soon I found out that selling books and information online in general was a hit and also a very convenient way for an extra income home business, considering that my personal life had very little money, little space, a lot of work and a family to support. Therefore I registered a domain name, I sign up for an Internet connection and then finally opened my bookstore named QualityBooks.com. Setting up store at beginning was very hard, I had to design my own pages, plan and put in action my own marketing strategy, take orders, ship books, and do by myself whatever else came up. At first, I only had a few books for sale (approximately 20), after two months there were absolutely no orders, I even sent out a catalog by mail to possible clients with zero response. I was completely frustrated and seriously considering doing something else. I decide then to sign up for a book drop ship dealer program with idea to increase number of products to offer and consequently chances of sales, and also started advertising at pay per click search engines. That is when orders finally started coming in. But don’t think that there were many, only two or three per week. However this was only what I needed in order to keep working on this project. Out of 700 books that were being offered at QalityBooks.com (mostly from drop shipping program) about three were very good sellers. I decided to place more time and money marketing these books, soon later, I realize that I was making a pretty good monthly income.
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